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A nossa humanidade racional

A nossa humanidade racional é uma possibilidade natural precária, continuamente ameaçada e interrompida pelos nossos perecíveis e pobres corpos, pela nossa finitude e mortalidade, pelas nossas exigências materiais, desejos e inconveniências. Ser um corpo natural é ser um objecto da natureza. E aqui reside certamente a ambiguidade da condição humana: se queremos exercitar a nossa natureza racional, devemos fazê-lo desafiando a natureza de um modo natural.

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